The Yawkey building entrance is now closed.

As of April 29, BMC’s Yawkey building doors are closed as an entrance. All patients and visitors on our main campus must enter the hospital via the Shapiro, Menino, or Moakley buildings, where they will be greeted by team members at a new centralized check-in desk. Learn more.

Also known as segmentectomy, this treatment removes an area of lung smaller than a lobe—usually the tumor and a small area of healthy lung tissue around it.

This is a treatment used for early-stage cancer and sometimes to remove a piece of the lung where cancer is suspected but not proven.